From Pavonia to the Garden State ’s Dutch Past

The 39th Annual Conference of the Institute 22-24 September 2016 WNew Brunswick, New Jersey

3:00 Thursday, September 22 Organizational meeting for Dutch American Group (DAG) 5:30–7:30 Welcome Reception at the Rutgers University 6:00–9:00 Inn and Conference Center Cocktail hour and dinner at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center Friday, September 23 Presentation of the Hendricks Award and the 9:00–9:30 Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize Welcome and introductions Elizabeth L. Bradley, Historic Hudson Valley 9:30–12:00 “‘Te Egg From Whence Was Hatched the Mighty City of ’: Session 1: Pavonia Washington Irving’s Portrait of New Jersey” Willem Klooster, Clark University “New Netherland and the Dutch Moment in Atlantic History” Saturday, September 24 9:00–10:30 Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University Session 3: Emerging Scholars “New Jersey in 1658: A Quaker Witness to a Little-known Corner of New Netherland” Liz Covart, host of the popular podcast “Ben Franklin’s World,” moder- ates a panel of three of NNI’s Emerging Scholars in which the panelists 10:30-11:00 discuss what inspired them to study New Netherland. Break Deborah Hamer, Omohundro Institute, College of William and Mary Andrea Mosterman, University of New Orleans “Te Geography of Slave Life in New Netherland” Artyom Anikin, University of Amsterdam

Daniel K. Richter, University of Joris van den Tol, Leiden University “‘Who Needs a House Out in Hackensack?’ Native People 10:30–1:00 and Dutch People West of the Hudson” Session 4: Dutch Defensive Works in New Netherland 12:00–1:30 Oscar Hefing, New Holland Foundation / Dutch Fortress Museum Box lunch provided “Simon Stevin in the New World: Archaeological Research into 17th- century Dutch Defensive Works in the Americas” 1:30–3:00 Session 2: Heritage Jaap Jacobs, University of St Andrews Dirk Mouw, Reformed Church Center “‘An Upright Stockade and a Small Breastwork’: “Persistence of Dutch Identity and the Reformed Church” Fortifcations in New Netherland”

Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley Craig Lukezic, Division of Historical and Cultural Afairs “From ‘Baas’ to ‘Boss’: America’s Dutch-Speaking Black “Archaeological Investigations of Fort Casimir” Community from Seventeenth-Century New Netherland to Nineteenth- Anne-Marie Cantwell, Rutgers University and Century New York and New Jersey” Diana diZerega Wall, City College of New York Kate Lynch, Independent scholar “Building Forts and Alliances: Archaeology at Freeman “Tere will be a College called in our Province of New Jersey” and Massapeag, Two Native American Sites.” 1:00 Box lunch provided

“From Pavonia to the Garden State” is made possible in part by support from the following: Gerald Auten, Karen Flinn, Elisabeth Funk, Richard Kiger, Edward Lacy, Sandra Lazo, Marilyn Van Kirk Mull, James Sefcik, Herman Solomon, Dennis and Ellen Zunon, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dutch Culture, Global Factories, New Holland Foundation, Nederlands Vesting Museum, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, and Shared Cultural Heritage. Artyom Anikin, University of Amsterdam Willem Klooster, PhD, Clark University Anikin is currently fnishing his PhD on the cultural legacy of New Netherland under Klooster specializes in the history of the Atlantic world (15th–19th centuries). He the supervision of the Dutch Golden Age Studies program at the University of Am- is Professor at Clark University, where he has taught since 2003, where he teaches sterdam. Raised in New York, he moved to the Netherlands in 2005, where he studied classes on comparative colonialism (the Americas), the age of Atlantic revolutions literature and history at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. In 2014 he was (1776–1824), and Caribbean history. His books include Te Dutch Moment: War, awarded the NNRC Student Scholar in Residence Research Grant to study at the New Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016), Revolu- York State Archives in Albany. Much of his research focuses on the restoration of Dutch tions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009), and Illicit Riches: Dutch rule in New York during the New Orange Period (1673–1674). He recently published a Trade in the Caribbean, 1648–1795 (1998). Klooster contributed “Failing to brief biography of Governor Anthony Colve in the journal New York History. Square the Circle: Te West India Company’s Volte-Face in 1638-39” to A Beauti- Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Historic Hudson Valley ful and Fruitful Place: Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Papers, Vol. 3, which was Bradley is a historian of New York, a veteran public program curator, and a consultant published by the New Netherland Institute in 2013. to arts and culture institutions around New York. She is the author of Knickerbocker: Craig Lukezic, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Afairs Te Myth Behind New York, a cultural history of New York’s frst mascot, and the edi- Since 2003 Lukezic has served as a historic archaeologist for the Delaware Divi- tor of the Penguin Classics Edition of Washington Irving’s Te Legend of Sleepy Hollow sion of Historical and Cultural Afairs. Along with project review, he has estab- and Other Stories and Irving’s A History of New York. Her other contributions include lished the “Early Colonial Symposium of the Delaware Valley,” and initiated the chapters in the Morbid Anatomy Anthology, the Cambridge Companion to the Literature Fort Casimir Project. In this position, he has contributed to the Lewes Maritime of New York and Exploring Historic Dutch New York. Archaeological Project and Avery’s Rest. Currently he is serving as the president Liz Covart, PhD, Ben Franklin’s World of the Archaeological Society of Delaware and teaching as an adjunct at Delaware Covart is the creator and host of “Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early Ameri- State University, where he is the principle investigator to the ongoing Wildcat can History,” an award -nominated podcast that seeks to create wide awareness about Manor Project. Craig’s formal education comes from the College of William and history and the work of professional historians. She earned her PhD in history from the Mary (M.A.) and Penn State University (B.A.). University of California, Davis. Presently, she is working on turning her dissertation Kate Lynch, Independent scholar into a book about how the people of Albany, New York created frst Dutch, then British, Kate Lynch is an educator and independent researcher who was awarded the and fnally American identities between 1614 and 1830. She is also the Lapidus Initiative 2015–16 Albert A. Smith Fellowship from the New Brunswick Teological Assistant Editor for New Media at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History Seminary for her work on Bergen County, New Jersey and Teunis Dey, a charter and Culture. member of Rutgers (Queens). In 2011 Lynch was awarded a travel grant by the Anne-Marie Cantwell, PhD, Rutgers University and New York University Association for Documentary Editing for her research on the Cantwell is an archaeologist whose interests include colonialism, the development of soldier-farmer Dirck Siecken Dey whose farm was located at today’s Dey Street urban societies, Native trade and ritual in both pre- and post-contact eastern North near the World Trade Center. In her role as an educator, Kate was a three-time America, and the politics of the past. She is Professor Emerita at Rutgers University- U.S. State Department fellow on a grant to Turkey. Newark and Visiting Scholar at New York University. Her publications include Unearth- Andrea Mosterman, PhD, University of New Orleans ing Gotham, written with Diana Wall, with whom Cantwell is currently working on a Mosterman’s work explores the multi-faceted dimensions of slavery, the slave book on the archaeology of New Netherland. Cantwell has also co-edited Aboriginal trade, and cross-cultural contact in the Dutch Atlantic and early America. She has Economy and Ritual in the Eastern Woodlands, Ethics in Anthropology, and Copper in received various grants and fellowships, including the Gilder Lehrman Research Late Prehistoric North America. Fellowship and the Quinn Research Residencies at the New York State Archives Jeroen Dewulf, PhD, University of California, Berkeley and New York State Library. She has published in, among others, the Journal of Dewulf is Associate Professor in the Department of German at the University of Califor- African History, and has developed a digital exhibit entitled “Slavery in New Neth- nia, Berkeley and is the current director of the university’s Institute of European Studies. erland” for the website of the New Netherland Institute. Currently, she is working His diverse research interests include Dutch and Portuguese (post)colonial literature on her manuscript “Sharing Spaces: African and Dutch Interactions in Early New and history, the transatlantic slave trade, Low Countries studies, and Swiss literature York,” under contract with Cornell University Press. and culture. In addition to numerous other accolades for his scholarship, he was dis- Dirk Mouw, Reformed Church Center, New Brunswick, NJ tinguished with the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute in 2014 for his Dirk Mouw is a historian, translator and a fellow of the Reformed Church Center research on the frst slave community on , and in 2015 he was awarded the in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received the 2010 Hendricks Award from Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize, also from the New Netherland Institute. the New Netherland Institute for his dissertation, “Moederkerk and Vaderland: Evan Haefeli, PhD, Texas A&M University Religion and Ethnic Identity in the Middle Colonies, 1690-1772.” He coedited Haefeli joined Texas A&M University in 2014 afer teaching at Columbia, Tufs, and Transatlantic Pieties: Dutch Clergy in Colonial America (2013). His translation Te Princeton Universities and the London School of Economics, where he was a Visiting Memorandum Book of Antony de Hooges, business manager of Rensselaerswijck, is Fellow. His research has included the frontier between New France and New England, available at the website of the New Netherland Institute. early Native American history, the Salem witchcraf trials, obscure revolts in colonial Daniel K. Richter, PhD, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University New York, captivity narratives and the nature of book publishing in colonial America, of Pennsylvania and the politics of religious toleration in the Dutch empire, especially New Nether- Richter is Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American land. He is currently fnishing a book on the politics of religious toleration and English Studies and Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History. His overseas expansion from 1497 to 1688 and editing a volume of essays entitled Anti-Ca- research and teaching focus is on colonial North America and Native American tholicism: Te Anglo-American Experience c. 1600-1850. His next book will examine the history before 1800. He is currently researching English colonization during the radical origins of the English Bahamas in the seventeenth century. Restoration era for a book tentatively titled Te Lords Proprietors: Feudal Dreams Deborah Hamer, PhD, Omohundro Institute, College of William and Mary in English America, 1660–1689. His most recent book is Trade, Land, Power: Te Hamer received her PhD in early modern European history from Columbia University Struggle for Eastern North America. His other works include Before the Revolu- in 2014 and is currently working on a book manuscript on marriage in the Dutch At- tion: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011), which was named by the Wall Street Journal lantic world in the 17th century. For 2015–2017, she is the NEH-Omohundro Institute as one of the ten best non-fction books of 2011, and Facing East from Indian Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Country: A Native History of Early America (2001), a fnalist for the Pulitzer Prize at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was a visiting as- for History. sistant professor of history at Boston College during the 2014–2015 academic year. Dr. Joris van den Tol, Leiden University Hamer has received various grants, including awards from the American Association of Van den Tol obtained his master’s degree in Early Modern History at the Univer- Netherlandic Studies, the New Netherland Research Center, and the American Jewish sity of Amsterdam in 2012 with a thesis on Dutch smuggling during the Eighty Historical Society. Years’ War, written under the supervision of Marjolein ‘t Hart. In October 2012, Oscar Hefing, New Holland Foundation / Dutch Fortress Museum Van den Tol started his doctoral studies at Leiden University under Catia An- Hefing fnished his study of archaeology at the University of Amsterdam in 1992. tunes’s project “Challenging Monopolies: Building Informal Global Empires,” In his working-career he specializes in Dutch colonial fortifcations around the where he is researching lobbying in the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic. Atlantic. He was part of the staf during the excavations of Fort Orange in Brazil in From October 2015 to January 2016 he conducted research at the New Nether- 2002–2003, where a 17th-century Dutch fort (1631) was traced under an 18th-century land Institute in Albany on a Fulbright scholarship. Portuguese fort. As director of the New Holland Foundation he coordinates the “Atlas Diana diZerega Wall, PhD, City College of New York of Dutch Brazil” and the “Atlas of Dutch North America,” inventories of historical Wall is an archaeologist who specializes in the study of from the and archaeological material. As director of the Dutch National Fortress Museum in Dutch period through the 19th century. Her interests include the construction of Naarden, Hefing intends to organize exhibitions and promote the conservation of class, race, and gender. Professor Emerita at City College and the CUNY Gradu- Dutch heritage overseas. Fortifcations were once used to separate people; with his work ate Center, she holds a PhD from New York University. Her books include Te Hefing promotes the use of fortifcations to bring people together. Archaeology of American Cities (with Nan Rothschild, University Press of Florida, Jaap Jacobs, PhD, University of St. Andrews 2014) and the award-winning Unearthing Gotham (with Anne-Marie Cantwell; Jacobs received his PhD from Leiden University in 1999. He has specialized in early Yale, 2001). She is currently working on a book on the archaeology of New Neth- American history, specifcally the Dutch in the Americas in the early modern period. erland (with Anne-Marie Cantwell). He has taught at Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. He has published widely on New Netherland and New Amsterdam, including Te Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth Century America (Cornell University Press, 2009). He is currently working on a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant and regularly gives lectures and presentations on Dutch New York. Background: Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New York, ca. 1756, Tobias Conrad Lotter Peacock: Blauwe pauw, Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers, 1759–1842 Program design: Stephen McErleane